Raise the Red Lantern

Genre: Drama

Worldwide gross$2.6M

China in the 1920's. After her father's death, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in separate houses within the great castle. The competition between the wives is tough, as their master's attention carries power, status and privilege. Each night Chen must decide with which wife to spend the night and a red lantern is lit in front of the house of his choice. And each wife schemes and plots to make sure it's hers. However, things get out of hand...

🏆 Nominated for 1 Oscar. 23 wins & 15 nominations total

Genres

Drama, Romance

Director

Yimou Zhang

Cast

Gong Li, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He

Released

18 December 1991

Runtime

2h 5m

Certificate

PG

IMDb rating

8.1 / 10

Votes

37,917

Rotten Tomatoes

97%

Box office

$2,603,061

Edition

Base